We've all had discussions before about where we're going as a society and whether we've all become too busy for our own good. Why can't we ever stop and smell the flowers anymore?
Then, in Sunday's Washington Post, there was this.
In a pre-arranged experiment, the paper asked world-reknowned violinst Joshua Bell to perform a concert, of sorts. Only he'd be performing at a Washington subway station in cognito as a simple street performer, never letting on about his true identity.
He's a man, the paper says, who can command $1,000 a minute. But for 43 minutes, he played a solo concert for more than 1,000 people in the most intimate of settings -- and nearly all of them had no idea who he was.
How do you think he did? Would the power of the performance be enough to break through the average Joe's busy lifestyle and get-on-to-work mentality? If you are like me (and my fellow bloggers are), the answer will depress you. The story is a bit long, but the writing is very good and I love the way multimedia is infused directly into the presentation on the page.
It raises such a good question: Had I been in that subway station on that day, would I have stopped to listen? Would you have?
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2 comments:
Sorry, I don't have time to finish reading your entire posting, let alone some article linked to it.
To Anonymous: Thanks! That was really interesting.
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